QotD: All My Computers
How many computers do you have in your house?
Submitted by Foomper.
I have a Powerbook G4 (now two years ago, since I remember buying it during the 2004 ALCS) and a three-year-old G4 eMac. Those are the functional machines. I also have the following machines stored in the basement:
- Powerbook G3, the machine I used during much of Dotcom (1.0.) The Cadillac of laptops, it was huge, smooth and very comfortable. It also had a cool modular baysso you could swap out the floppy drive and put in a Zip drive.
- iBook G3 DVD special edition, the machine I purchased late in Dotcom and used for the final, terminal phase .It was a very robust machine-kind of looked like a toy, but very robust. This was also the first machine I ever had that had wireless capability, which I added sometime in 2001.
- 14" iBook G3 dual-USB, the white square iteration of the iBook, one of the most popular laptops Apple ever made. My step-mom bought this for me in early fall 2002, and I used it all the way up to the time I bought the Powerbook. I loaned it to my cousin who spent a lot of time fighting with Apple to fix it (since it had three-year Applecare) until he bought a black Macbook. Now I have it again.
I don't know what to do with all of these old laptops. They all sort of work, but aren't really that, as they say in the biz "useful." I have an irrational sentimental attachment to all of them. So I don't know what to do. I wish I could donate them somewhere where they might get some use, but it seems like the places that restore computers for use in schools have fallen by the wayside.
I thought I had a picture of all of my old laptops lined up on my desk, but apparently not.